Speech for inaugurating Uttaran Resource Centre
19.12.09 Respected Ms. R. Roy Choudhury,Managing Trustee, Ms. Nita Sethia, Associate Managing trustee, Ms Anuradha Das, distinguished personalities in the dias -Professor Nilanjana Sanyal, Professor Pushpa Mishra, Dr.Bhargava, Professor Bakshi and distinguished delegates, I am thankful to you all for giving me opportunity to inaugurate Uttaran Resource Centre under Tarun Sinha Memorial trust for promotion of mental health. Currently, we are passing through a transition period. The transition between consciousness and no consciousness or between consciousness and faulty consciousness. A large number of people specially our younger generation, income generation groups ans seniors are the victims of the transition. They are gradually loosing psycho social immunities namely feeling of security, interpersonal trust, social support, autonomy in decision making, security feeling and feedback systems.This results high incidence in mental illness. According to a recent World bank study, mental